obstruction

McConnell moans Obama's playing games
to do his job as time is growing short
as if the GOP were not to blame
that we're short-handed on the Supreme Court
since Bork, each confirmation risks a war
where principle's eclipsed by spin and tricks
nostalgia for the way it was before
can't guide reform of broken politics
al-Odah fell outside of the Great Writ
until a higher court said it ain't so
but judging whether Garland's fit to sit
will need a shift in how the blowhards blow
the President "shall nominate"--that's law
however much it sticks in Mitch's craw